AQUIFOLIACE^. 633 



Order ERTCACEJE. 



VACCINIUM, L. 



V. formOSUm, Andr. Stem smooth ; leaves thickisli (partly peren- 

 nial), ovate or oblong, entire, smooth, or pubescent beneath ; racemes 

 axillary; corolla cylindrical, red. — Florida (//er6. Durand). — Stem 2° -3° 

 high. Leaves l'-2' long. 



V. virgatum, Ait. Stem smooth, the branches and young leaves 

 downy; leaves thickisli, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire; racemes 

 mostly on naked branches ; corolla cylindrical, wiiite, or red like the bracts ; 

 berry black. — Low pine barrens, Florida to South Carolina. March. — Stem 

 2° -4° high. Leaves 1' or less long. 



V. vacillans, Solander. Stem smooth, with yellowish shining branches ; 

 leaves ovate or obovate, nearly entire, pale and glaucous ; corolla oblong- 

 bell-shaped, white; berry blue. — Mountains of Georgia and North Carolina, 

 and northward. April. — Stem 1°- 2° high. Leaves T- 2' long. 



CHIOGENES, Salisb. Creeping Snowberry. 



Calyx 4 parted. ' Corolla bell-shaped, 4-cleft. Stamens 8 : anther-cells 

 unawned, opening from the tip to the middle. Berry white, globular, 4-celled, 

 many-seeded. — A small creeping evergreen. Leaves ovate, acute, the mar- 

 gins revolute, the lower surface, like the margins, bristly. Flowers small, 

 axillary, white, nodding. 



G. hispidula, Torr. & Gray. — Damp woods, Mountains of North Car- 

 olina, and northward. 



RHODODENDRON, L. 



R. Vaseyi, Gray. Low and bushy ; branches smooth ; leaves thin, ovate- 

 oblong, acuminate, acute at base ; pedicels glandular, at length recurved ; 

 calyx short, truncate; corolla smooth, rose-color, rotate-campanulate, nearly 

 equally 5-parted, the lobes obovate ; stamens and style slightly exserted ; 

 capsule oblong, smooth. (Graif.) — Balsa Mountain, North Carolina (R. 

 Vasey ) . 



Order AQUIFOLIACE^. 



ILEX, L. 



I. mollis, Gray. Leaves thin, oval or oblong, acuminate, sharply ser- 

 rulate, downy ; sterile flowers very numerous, in umbel-like clusters, the 

 pedicels shorter than the petiole, soft-downy, like the calyx ; fertile pedun- 

 cles very short, — Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. 



I. monticola, Gmy. Leaves thin, ovate or lance-oblong, acuminate, 

 smooth, sharply serrate ; fertile flowers very short-peduncled ; calyx ciliate. 

 (I. ambigua, Torr.) — Mountains of North Carohna I Gray). — Leaves 3' -ft' 

 long. 



